LS101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: United States Constitution, Social Order
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Due process and crime control models of the criminal process: an overview of two models of the criminal process. The united states constitution emphasizes freedom and liberty. Canada"s value system has long been supportive of a crime control model. The us"s has long subscribed to a due process model of the criminal process: the crime control model. This model argues that crime and social disorder are major threats to our freedom. Maintaining social order is an important part of governance. Society willingly gives up some freedom in order to maintain order. The police play an important role in maintaining social order. The police operate on a presumption of guilt. Laws are meant to be flexible to enable the police to apprehend criminals. This model emphasizes the ends (social order) over the means: a case example of the crime control model china. China today is regarded as an authoritarian country with few political freedoms.
